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title: Create Your First Dashboard
description: Learn how to create a dashboard in OpenLIT, configure its settings, and prepare it for widgets, queries, and visualization.
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Dashboards in OpenLIT are where your visualizations come to life. You can add widgets, run SQL queries against ClickHouse, and build dynamic, data-driven interfaces for your team or application.

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## How to create a dashboard

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## 📂 Organizing Your Dashboard

After creation, you can move the dashboard into a different folder using drag-and-drop or by editing its properties.

> Need help creating folders? See [Creating Your First Folder →](/guides/create-folder)

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## ✅ Next Steps

Once your dashboard is ready, you're all set to:

- [Create Your First Folder →](/latest/features/dashboards/create-your-first-folder)  
- [Organize your dashboards →](/latest/features/dashboards/organize-your-dashboards)  
- [Pin Your Dashboard →](/latest/features/dashboards/pin-your-dashboard)  
- [Set as Main Dashboard →](/latest/features/dashboards/set-as-main-dashboard)  
- [Widgets →](/latest/features/dashboards/widgets/introduction)  
- [Filters & Dynamic bindings →](/latest/features/dashboards/use-filters-and-dynamic-bindings)
- [Refresh Rate →](/latest/features/dashboards/auto-refresh-and-time-interval)
